"D-dad!! Dad!! What happened to you?? Dad!!! Doctor...doctor!!! Somebody help! He's heartbeat is stopping...Doc-Doctor...",a loud cry escaped my lips on seeing my father gasping for air even after the oxygen mask was draped around his nose.

His heartbeat was suddenly dropping while he was all numb with his eyes wide open and squeezing out as if he's about to die. My heart sank to the bottom of my chest when I noticed the straight line appearing on the ECG screen.

I wanted to cry my heart out but nothing came out of my mouth. I turned around hearing the heavy footsteps in the cold,dark and isolated ward to see a doctor wearing a mask entered inside and he immediately shoved me aside.

Plugging in the wire of the defibrillator, he charged the defibrillator to 250 joules and gave him a shock on his chest and checked the machine. The line was still flat. He increased the voltage to 300 joules and again gave him a shock. Still no response.

My heart was painfully squeezing in my chest and my hands and feet started trembling vigorously while my mind started freezing. But suddenly I heard a beeping sound and as I turned my head towards the machine, the flat line turned into a curve with P and R peaks...

I immediately turned towards my father and hugged him tightly with tears rolling my cheeks, uncontrollably.

"Th-thank you do...doctor",I replied while lifting my teary vision to look at the doctor.

He doesn't reply nor nods and just kept staring at me. I felt an eerie silence in the room and when I looked deep into his eyes, a shiver ran down my spine.

They are the same orbs...

My heartbeat started exhilarating while panic started groping my body. My breathings stopped and I could feel as my feet became frozen to the ground. Before I could even react, he swiftly took out a scalpel from his pocket and stabbed my father right on his chest.

"No.....!!!",a loud shriek escaped my lips while my eyes widened in immense horror.

He kept stabbing it till his chest had a large hole in ghe center and massive blood started leaking out vigorously which also splashed on my face thereby staining my flesh with my father's blood. My body went pale as soon as I saw him turning towards me, holding something in his hand.

"Ahhhh!!!!!",with shaking legs, I tried to run but he instantly grabbed me by my hair and forcefully opening my mouth, he shoved my father's stabbed blood red pumping heart inside my mouth.

"THE REVENGE IS OVER!!!"

"No..........!!!!"

A loud shriek escaped my lips and immediately my eyes snapped wide open. My body jolted in panic and suddenly my head started throbbing in immense pain, feeling as if my head is splitting in two halves. My body was sweating profusely with my lungs gasping for air.

It was a nightmare! Phew...

As I was about lift my body upwards, excessive pain shot throughout my whole body making me suddenly realise that the real world was indeed a nightmare for me.

The brutality he did to me yesterday night was inhumane and I've decided that from now onwards, I won't live with the psychopath under the same roof. No doubt that next time my dead body will be received by my parents if I stay with him, even in a thousand metres radius.

"Are you awake? How are you feeling dear?",I heard an elderly voice coming from the doorway when I noticed dadi stepping inside the room with the wheelchair along with a tray of Lemon & Coriander soup with a glass of water.

She had a weak smile on her face and I immediately bursted into tears on seeing her caring side. She merely knows me than also cares for me while on the contrary, the husband with whom I've taken holy vows in the mandap (like altar in church) to care and cherish, is the sole reason behind my agony.

"Don't cry dear! Drink the soup I've brought for you and rest!",she replied caressing my hairs lovingly and I couldn't help but hug her tightly, clutching on her saree while sniffling her motherly scent which was calming my aching heart and soothing my nerves.

"I-I don't w...wa-want to st-stay here! He...he'll ki...",I sobbed loudly while hiding my face in her bosom.

"He won't kill you! Before that I'll kill him with my own hands. Don't worry beta (child), I've got him arrested and soon we'll meet him straight in the court",she replied breaking the hug while wiping away my tears with her thumb.

I couldn't help but look at her face in shock. But he was her dearest grandchild! How can she punish her own blood?

"I know what are you thinkin'? Yahi n ki (This thing only that) he's my grandson so how can I send him behind the bars. Dear, though I love him alot and believe me my heart was bleeding and crying from inside when I saw him breaking in tears in the police station but the other part of me which also lost a daughter in suicide, was hell bent on punishing him for his deeds. You're also the daughter and the gem of someone's heart. No one has the right to hurt you in the name of marriage"

"Y-you don't need t-to send him in-inside j...",I was feeling bad for her as well as I was internally shaking in fear because I knew how easily he can be released from the cell and now I will become another reason for his revenge.

"Just stop blabbering and get some sleep. Your wounds needs time to heal",she replied while placing the empty bowl on the tray and as she turned to leave, I stopped her by placing my hand on her shoulder.

"Th-thank you d-dadi but I th-think it was far better for m-me if I get di...divorced from him a-and start m...my new life without involving p-police in all this",I replied while cascading my eyelashes down to prevent myself from looking into her eyes. Loser? Yes I'm. Coward? That also I'm. Broken? No doubt, because I can't take the risk of making my nightmare a reality. I've my weaknesses and one of the weakness is my family.

"Once the matter of extreme abuse and physical torture be taken into account in front of the jurisdiction, I'll also appeal for divorce for the victim which is you",she replied and immediately left the room, leaving me in utter shock and fear crept inside my heart. First I've been blamed for being a murderer's daughter and now I'll be blamed for creating a wedge between Grandma and her grandson and sending him behind the bars would only serve to add oil in the fire. This time he would certainly kill everyone including me.

Dragging my bandaged feet towards the window, I started looking out towards the vast sky which was dark and cloudy. The day was gloomy and saddening. No birds flying nor the leaves were fluttering. I felt like the world came to a standstill.

"Don't worry son! I'll get you out of here very soon. And then we'll teach that girl and her family a lifelong lesson that would be incarnated on their souls till their deaths. And that woman who had the audacity to send my son to j...",juliana gritted her teeth furiously on seeing her reputed and powerful son in the lock-up.

"Mum! Don't blame my wife or my Grandma here. She's right. I have crossed my boundaries this time and became a monster and now only law can punish me for my sins",he replied sighing while looking at her mother with weary eyes.

"So now she's your wife,huh? And that old lady because of whom you're inside the lock-up is your dear grandma now! What about me?", juliana replied with teary eyes looking at her son lovingly.

"Mum! Please...stop crying. I won't be inside for so long but I've decided to end this game of revenge here only. I would divorce her and let her live her life peacefully. Only this much I can do for my enemy. I'll free her from this loveless marriage forever..."